Your Area Officer who represents you at Council is Dr Miles Wagstaff, and your Regional Lead is Dr Christopher Magier. Find out useful contacts and activity in your RCPCH region.
Your RCPCH
Council
Council is the members' representative body that reports directly to the Board of Trustees, and meets three times a year. Council sets the College's overall strategy, in particular with regard to issues affecting members. Find out more and read Council meeting minutes
Area Officer
The South England Area Officer sits on Council, and represents two RCPCH regions: South West and Wessex.
- Area Officer: Dr Miles Wagstaff - mileswagstaff@nhs.net
Regional Lead
The Wessex Regional Lead is the ambassador and advocate for your RCPCH region. Through the Area Officer, they represent you in Council and other meetings. They also liaise with specialty training bodies, to help ensure the quality of training. The Regional Lead is in this post for three years, with a possible extension for a further two years.
- Regional Lead: Dr Christopher Magier - christopher.magier@nhs.net
- Deputy Regional Lead: Dr Sebastian Gray - sebastian.gray@salisbury.nhs.uk
Other contacts for your RCPCH region
- Less Than Full Time Training Advisor: Dr Katrina Cathie - katrina.cathie@uhs.nhs.uk
- Trainee Representative: Dr Fiona Hignett - fionahignett@gmail.com
- Principal Area Theory (PAT) Lead: Dr Antoinette McAulay - antoinette.mcaulay@poole.nhs.uk
Contacts for your training
- Wessex Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education (deanery)
- Southampton University
- Head of School: Dr Stephen Warriner - stephen.warriner@porthosp.nhs.uk
- Training Programme Directors (TPD) ST1-3: Dr Phil Parslow - phil.parslow@dchft.nhs.uk
- Training Programme Directors (TPD) ST4-8: Dr Steven Warriner - stephen.warriner@porthosp.nhs.uk
- Deanery Administrator: paediatrics.wx@hee.nhs.uk
Paediatrics in Wessex
- Paediatric Innovation, Education and Research (PIER) Network
- The STrIPES group - trainee group interested in simulation and education, led by Dr James Edelman (trainee)
- Searchable repository of patient safety and QI projects run in Wessex
- Southampton and Oxford Retrieval team, includes information on upcoming courses
- Oxford and Southampton Children’s Hospital Network
- Wessex Refugee Resource.com - supporting health professionals in treating refugees and asylum seekers within the Wessex Deanery